Glances webui with pipx
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Glances has a pretty incredible webui to view system processes and information like htop, or task manager for windows.

Date: February 20, 2022

Glances has a pretty incredible webui to view system processes and information like htop, or task manager for windows.

The nice thing about the webui is that it can be accessed from a remote system. This would be super nice on something like a raspberry pi, or a vm running in the cloud. Its also less intimidating and easier to search if you are not a terminal junky.

install
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You will need to install glances to use the glances webui. We can still use pipx to manage our virtual environment </virtual-environment/> for us so that we do not need to do so manually or run the risk of globally installed package dependency hell.

[code]
  pipx install glances
  pipx inject glances "glances[web]"

You will be presented with this success message.

[code]
    injected package glances into venv glances
  done! ✨ 🌟 ✨

running the webui
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Now that you have glances installed you can run it with the -w flag to run the webui.

[code]
  glances -w

This will present you with the following success message.

[code]
  Glances Web User Interface started on http://0.0.0.0:61208/

Open it in your browser
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Now that its running you can open your web browser to localhost:61208 and be presented with the glances webui.

Image: running the glances webui on my system <https://images.waylonwalker.com/glances-w.png>

Links
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- pipx
- website
- docs
- github